Year 1987

Manthottam - The Independence Day Massacre

On 4th February 1987, a group of armed LTTE terrorists comprising over 50 LTTE cadres, stormed Manthottam Sinhalese village and murdered eight villagers after brutally torturing them.

The terrorists could not get the intended kill as the villagers anticipating an attack on the independence day had gone on hiding in the surrounding jungles at night

Aranthalawa Bloodbath

On 7th February 1987, just three days after the independence day, terrorists armed with swords, machetes, clubs and small-armed butchered 27 civilians in a house-to-house raid at night. Large number of children and women including pregnant mothers were found hacked to death